You are likely as is the readers of this site of much of R. Heschel’s work and accomplishments. His Magnum Opus Torah Min Hashamayin is a work that took Heschel only 2 years to create. It wrote it in a Rabbinic Hebrew and he did not take the time to look up actual sources. It took 10 years to translate into English and accurately identify all the sources he called upon. The Sabbath only is a tip of the iceberg of his work. If you look at the most recent Hakirah Journal – an advanced Orthodox work on Halacha and Philosophy – there is an extensive essay sharing many aspects of Heschel’s work and accomplishments relaying reasoning of why he is a giant and needs to be included in the Orthodox conversation. He was enough of a Gedol to be selected to negotiate with the Pope to change the Church’s writings and ceremonies that was questionable to Jews and he succeeded! Noestra Aetate.
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